William Richard Townsend - NAME

Started by Private User on Monday, August 9, 2021
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There does not appear to be any record of William having the second name of Richard, in both birth and marriage registrations.
The name Richard William for Robert Harry's brother most likely comes from Caroline's father and William's name.
William Richard was the name given to Uncle Richie, son of Robert Harry and Emma Townsend.

A merge was perform on his profile.
Then Richard was add as a name.

William Richard Townsend's father was just plain William. I have seen family bibles with the name William Richard Townsend. The father of Richard William and my grandfather Robert Harry. I have not seen his birth certificate/baptismal certificate to confirm whether this was so at birth,.

Have uploaded a copy of the Birth Registration for William, born in 1852, Sunderland Durham England. No mention of "Richard."

Thanks for that. The question is was the birth registration correct? I wonder what his baptismal certificate has on it? Also maybe a few days or weeks later the parents decided to add Richard to his name. It is also an accepted practice to use parents or grandparents names and swop them around. This helped in the days when genealogy was not an accepted practice. Thanks for checking, we need to get these things right.

Very interesting. I will attempt to attach the shipping list where William calls himself William Richard Townsend. Ha there is no attachment facility so I will copy and paste. That does not work either. Marion send me a PM - I am David Alan Townsend on FB and Messenger and I will forward it to you.

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